What mercantilism and heavy capitalism show is that it is not the desire for material that drives capital, but the desire for money, that is, the desire to accumulate the “power” that makes it possible to obtain material through exchange… The question is, where does this “power” (exchange value) come from? Marx found it as a spiritual force that attaches to goods. That is, as the god of things (fetish).
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